# Ukraine announces preference for self-hosted AI models without provider control

_Tuesday, July 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

Ukraine will favour AI systems it can run on its own servers, a senior ministry official said on Tuesday, as wartime Kyiv seeks to keep digital tools for government services, businesses and the military from depending on remote systems that providers can restrict or switch off.

The approach favours self-hosted, or on-premise, models that Ukraine can deploy on its own infrastructure, while limiting solutions that, by design, remain under the provider's control. A category that includes Anthropic and OpenAI's main models.

Kyslyi said the decisive criterion is not about where the model is from. If the vendor will provide it to run on our on-premise infrastructure, there are no restrictions.

The comments come from a Reuters report dated July 7.

## Sources

- [Reuters](https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-07-07/ukraine-to-pick-ai-models-operated-without-provider-control-official-says)

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